Work After MST3K
After MST3K, Hodgson formed Visual Story Tools (VST) with his brother Jim Hodgson. They created a special for an interactive sketch comedy program called The TV Wheel for HBO, which Joel produced and hosted. It aired only once, on Comedy Central, after the last new Comedy Central episode of MST3K.
Over the years Hodgson and his brother Jim maintained a side project that utilized the repurposing of movie footage with digital effects; code named "jollyfilter."
Hodgson's other post-MST3K projects and contributions include Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, You Don't Know Jack, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Everything You Need to Know. Hodgson also played a recurring role as a disco-loving clothing store owner and DJ on the short-lived series Freaks and Geeks.
Hodgson was featured as the cover story in the November 1996 issue of Genii magazine.
In 2007, he portrayed Blackbeard the pirate in two episodes of The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd and recently joined fellow MST3K alum Frank Conniff's monthly comedy revue Cartoon Dump, helming his self-created puppet "Dumpster Diver Dan."
He has since starred in the science fiction computer game DARKSTAR - The Interactive Movie as Scythe Commander Kane Cooper.
Joel also reunited with Jerry Seinfeld as a guest on his web show, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee".
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